Like many people in the world of ELT I was shocked and disappointed by the results of the EU referendum this morning. Like many people in our position, my wife and I have been sitting on the sofa in our house in central Portugal, in a state of bleak disbelief struggling to understand both how the British people could have made this choice and of course, what the ramifications are for us.

We are asking ourselves questions like: Should we stay here? If we want to stay here, how do we go about it? Should we go somewhere else? Should we return to the UK? Do we even want to return to the UK? How on earth are we going to make that happen if we do?

There is a lot of anxiety in our thinking, a lot of uncertainty and a lot of speculation, none of which adds up…